Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Totally Teal Flowers :D

Using a Christmas free gift as the basis for a Birthday card :D For this card, I used the Nativity Scene Panel Die (well the outside of it) and the embossing folder from issue 16 of Die-Cutting Essentials along with the Intricate Native Flowers dies from Sizzix :D I used the embossing folder and die to create a frame, I first die-cut the rectangle from a piece of Cornflower Foundations card, then I lined up the aperture in the embossing folder so that the border would emboss nicely around the die-cut rectangle (it's best to do it this way round so you don't squash your embossing when die-cutting the aperture) :D I then used some teal Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Wax to add some pearlesence to the frame (this colour of gilding wax works perfectly with the Cornflower cardstock :D)

For all the flowers and leaves I used a mixture of Cornflower and Aqua Foundations cardstock, and also some white patterned vellum and some aqua vellum which I actually got in Paperchase, they were massive A2 sheets and they were selling them off at 50p!!! Crazy cheap price lol and it's a decent weight too, more like parchment!! :D I then arranged my flowers and leaves inside the frame, overlapping the edges to make them look as though they're peeking out :D and to finish it off, I added a Happy Birthday sentiment! I love it when you get a free gift like this one, because its sooo versatile and can literally be turned into any occasion when you utilise this gorgeous frame :D If you got this magazine, don't forget to check out page 72, where you'll see some of my cards :D :D :D Sooooooo exciting!!!!!

To see the process behind this card, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D

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A little bit about me and any of my affiliations :D I'm on the design team for 4 UK Papercrafting Magazines... Papercraft Essentials, Creative Stamping, Die-Cutting Essentials and Simply Cards and Papercraft :D and I'm also on the design teams for CraftStash and Creative Expressions too :D I have two YouTube channels CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl and ArTi PoTeNTiAl where I make videos for the Papercraft Magazines Facebook page using the Magazine Freebies, I have a Spellbinders video every Monday for Spellbloggers, I make regular videos as part of the CraftStash Design Team, I create a new Tonic video every Tuesday using prodcuts which they've sent me and now I'm also making videos for Creative Expressions as I#m now on their design them :D Oh, and I made videos just for fun too :D

I'm now lucky enough part of a few different affiliate programs including CraftStash, Spellbinders, Hobbycraft, Crafter's Companion and Joggles which means that I will be linking the products that I've used in my videos to their websites (provided they stock them) :D And if you purchase any items using these affiliate links you will be helping me to continue to create my daily YouTube videos, this is at NO extra cost to yourself, the specific links just allow the companies to know how many people have purchased an order after visiting my blog or YouTube channel :D If I've included a product on my supply lists, but I haven't linked to it, that just simply means that no one I'm an affilate for stocks it at that current time :D

Regarding the products I used in my videos... Tonic Studios have been extremely kind and generous about supplying me with products for my weekly Tonic Videos on my CRaFTi YouTube Channel and for using in my Journal Layouts on my ArTi channel too, the fact that they supplied me with a lot of the Tonic products I use has no bearing over my opinion of the products, Tonic are a fantastic company that produce top quality products, and my opinion on that won't change and has been that way for years :D The videos I post on a Monday are usually using Spellbinders dies, and Spellbinders were very generous in sending me a Platinum Die-Cutting machine and a handful of die sets, and again the fact that I got given them will not affect my opinions of their products, I have been a huge fan of Spellbinders for years, and their machines and dies just keep getting better and better :D And as I'm now a Spellblogger I also get a few die sets each month to use in my videos as well :D Also as I'm now on the Design Teams for both CraftStash and Creative Expressions, they too do send me products to use in my videos every month as well :D

Thank you so much for supporting me on my crafty journey!! :D Christine xxx